The American Wing is a favorite destination for the Metropolitan's visitors, so I am particularly pleased that, once again, there is in print a handy and dependable guide to its treasures. The joint work of the curatorial staffs of the Departments of American Decorative Arts and American Paintings and Sculpture, the text is informed by the latest scholarship presented in an informal and accessible manner.

The American Wing is a living organism, with its collections and their means of display continually evolving. Since 1980, for example, literally hundreds of works of art have been acquired thanks to the generosity of many collectors and donors; a half dozen important period rooms, including a masterpiece by Frank Lloyd Wright, have been installed; and the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, in which most of the Wing's reserve collections are on public view, has opened. Changes will continue, and it is our hope that this new volume, organized to guide the visitor through three stories and many galleries, will be as popular, and go through as many editions, as the original Handbook of the American Wing.

Heckscher, Morrison H. In Quest of Comfort: The Easy Chair in America. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971.

Howat, John K., and Dianne H. Pilgrim . American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973.

Knotts, Benjamin. "Hands to Work and Hearts to God." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 1, no. 7 (March, 1943). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943.

Lanmon, Dwight P., with David B. Whitehouse. The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 11, Glass. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.

Libin, Laurence. American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.

Matson, Jessie. "Staffordshire and the American Trade." Metropolitan Museum of Art Staffordshire and the American Trade bulletin, New ser., v. 4, no. 3 (November, 1945). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945.

Phipps, Elena. "Materials and Techniques in American Quilts and Coverlets," in Peck, Amelia, American Quilts and Coverlets in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MQ Publications, pp. 214227. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.

Phipps, Elena. Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings in the Bequest of Richad De Wolfe Brixey." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 2, no. 9 (May, 1944). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944.

Tolles, Thayer, ed., catalogue by Donna J. Hassler, Joan M. Marter, and Thayer Tolles. American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.

Tolles, Thayer, ed., with Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler, and Thayer Tolles. American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.

Wees, Beth Carver with Medill Higgins Harvey. Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.

Herdrich, Stephanie L., and H. Barbara Weinberg, with Marjorie Shelley. American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.

The curators of the American Wing, with an introduction by Morrison H. Heckscher and H. Barbara Weinberg. A Walk Through The American Wing. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.